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and he -- his 12-man team was there to train -- work with the nun nungs, who were special forces from china, o work with the mountain yards wo were the native population and there and work with south vietnamese regular forces who, none of them were as gung ho as the americans. >> he was captured in 1964 and released after nine years, when? >> in march 16, 1973. so, 10 days short of nine yars. >> for purposes after the introduction, we -- in 1973, he comes back to the united states. we're talking about 1991, his son standing trial for murder. why? >> jim -- jim jr. was born the day after jim was shot down. alice had made a decision about 15 months later to move the family in with another man to pose as thehusband of this other man to sort of put her life with jim thompson behind her. the reason shedidthat were numerous, but her support system was breaking down. alice was the kind of woman who was very dependent uon her husband. there were some problems in the marriage, but nothing that jim thought about much while he was in captivity because he idolized the marriage and the family. it was hi
and he -- his 12-man team was there to train -- work with the nun nungs, who were special forces from china, o work with the mountain yards wo were the native population and there and work with south vietnamese regular forces who, none of them were as gung ho as the americans. >> he was captured in 1964 and released after nine years, when? >> in march 16, 1973. so, 10 days short of nine yars. >> for purposes after the introduction, we -- in 1973, he comes back to the united...
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they have over 200 bases and facilities nothing outside of china itself. the marines are larger and more powerful than the british military. when is the last time they conducted the landing the degette a lot of their support for? 1951, the courier and war that they had, they were talking about an expeditionary fighting vehicle. they are getting enough 35 and that is another thing about what we do. every service has its own air force so in addition, you have the army, the navy, the marine corps that has their own capability in terms of the air force. finally, you have the army structure at 547,000. you could save a couple hundred billion dollars over the next ten years by reducing that to a reasonable 360,000. so those are just some of the things that could be done that could get you to the trillion dollar figure that some people would say would disarm the united states. it wouldn't. 487 billion has already been agreed to by the senate and the house over the next ten years a sequestration would involve another for under 92 billion which would get you close
they have over 200 bases and facilities nothing outside of china itself. the marines are larger and more powerful than the british military. when is the last time they conducted the landing the degette a lot of their support for? 1951, the courier and war that they had, they were talking about an expeditionary fighting vehicle. they are getting enough 35 and that is another thing about what we do. every service has its own air force so in addition, you have the army, the navy, the marine corps...
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peter says to china, sorry, china, do as we say, not as i do. you have gotten a sense already, it is about foreign relations and government expansion it is so well-written. i can make an important argument is not previously. i can make an important argument that people will like to read. and for that, this book is a call in the debate of our discipline. i want to tell you about this book and then try to sort out the mischievous tone. there was john hancock, the first signature, the the man to sign the declaration of independence. signature so large, as he put it, king george will be able to see it without his spectacles. a smuggler. and that is okay. he is a patriot. in fact, can i see this on television? peter appears as the first smuggler in this book. going from bolivia to peru. bubbling toilet paper. don't ask, read about. [laughter] this comes up again and again in american history. we have the story about the oklahoma land rush. it's not in peter's book, but 1889, thousands of people on the oklahoma border, and at noon sharp on april 22, c
peter says to china, sorry, china, do as we say, not as i do. you have gotten a sense already, it is about foreign relations and government expansion it is so well-written. i can make an important argument is not previously. i can make an important argument that people will like to read. and for that, this book is a call in the debate of our discipline. i want to tell you about this book and then try to sort out the mischievous tone. there was john hancock, the first signature, the the man to...
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clinton was president, the republicans mainly were running congress when we had things like nafta, china most favored nation status, the wto, the world trade organization, all of these trade deals people claimed were going to bring jobs to the united states, and in every case the jobs left.
clinton was president, the republicans mainly were running congress when we had things like nafta, china most favored nation status, the wto, the world trade organization, all of these trade deals people claimed were going to bring jobs to the united states, and in every case the jobs left.
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i have a chapter on the middle east, i have a chapter on afghanistan and on china, i talk about russia. india. i talk about america's competitive position in the world, where we are, what the challenges are for us, but also the world. i talk about alliances. i talk about the need to reconnect with public service. i have always believed that there is no nobler profession than public service. we havety myished that -- diminished that over a generation in a sense how many politicians have you heard make fun of government employees or diminish many some way -- in some way or make offhanded comments about washington is the bane of our existence, nothing good happens in washington. only the good, smart people are in nebraska or california or ohio. [laughter] you say that for political advantage occasionally, but unfortunately, that has permeated a society of young people who have been conditioned in many ways. and i think of what we are going to need and what joseph nye first wrote about from harvard in 1990. and he was, joseph nye was before our foreign relations committee along with richar
i have a chapter on the middle east, i have a chapter on afghanistan and on china, i talk about russia. india. i talk about america's competitive position in the world, where we are, what the challenges are for us, but also the world. i talk about alliances. i talk about the need to reconnect with public service. i have always believed that there is no nobler profession than public service. we havety myished that -- diminished that over a generation in a sense how many politicians have you...
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we have over 200 bases and facilities, china has nothing outside of china itself. .. the kid saved a couple hundred billion dollars over the next ten years by reducing that to reasonable 360,000 soldiers. so there are just some of the things that could be done that could get you to that trillion dollars figure that people say would really disarmed the united states. no, it wouldn't. now, 4,807,000,000,000 has already been agreed to by the senate and house of the next ten years of sequestration that would involve another 4,902,000,000,000 which would get you close to trillion, but there won't be a sequestration. so that kind of cutback we will see, and we don't see anyone in the pentagon really working toward this. leon panetta has never really asked for it. so this creates a serious problem. now, demilitarization is a more important issue because what we have done is militarize the entire national security process i have a chapter here on the militarization of the intelligence community. it deals with all of the military people have been placed in positions that shoul
we have over 200 bases and facilities, china has nothing outside of china itself. .. the kid saved a couple hundred billion dollars over the next ten years by reducing that to reasonable 360,000 soldiers. so there are just some of the things that could be done that could get you to that trillion dollars figure that people say would really disarmed the united states. no, it wouldn't. now, 4,807,000,000,000 has already been agreed to by the senate and house of the next ten years of sequestration...
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and the china die a of george h.w. bush, the making of a global president, published by princeton university press in 2008. rethinking leadership and whole of government national security reform, with one of our bush school faculty members, joe serami, and that was done for the strategic studies institute in 2010, and wrote the fall of the berlin wall, the revolutionary legacy of 1989, published by oxford university press in 2009. obviously we miss him at the bush school but know he is doing well at smu. i would now like to suggest that we're going to have a preintroduction to dr. jeff engel coming up on stage, and before he brings his remarks we're going to see a video, and this is a pretty significant video because it's a video in president bush's own words and it chronicles the event following the invasion of kuwait, and i would like to now pay attention to this video and after it's over, we'll have jeff engel come up and talk to us. thank you very much. [applause] >> in the early morning hours of august 2nd, follow
and the china die a of george h.w. bush, the making of a global president, published by princeton university press in 2008. rethinking leadership and whole of government national security reform, with one of our bush school faculty members, joe serami, and that was done for the strategic studies institute in 2010, and wrote the fall of the berlin wall, the revolutionary legacy of 1989, published by oxford university press in 2009. obviously we miss him at the bush school but know he is doing...
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if there's a war with china, ir don't see it being a ground war, at least not with us involved. president obama and secretary panetta and the joint chiefs of staff in their strategy reviewne oftt a year ago which is the mot attention to that was the pivote from europe to the pacific, one thing in that review that wasn't so well noted was the idea that it's kind of an end of nation building. he said the army and marines shall not size its forces for large-scale, prolonged stability operations which translated to english is like no more iraqs and afghanistans. not just no more iraqs and afghanistans, but when you do your scenarios, when you crank your calculations to figure out how many troops you need, thiss is not even the kind of scenario that should enter into the calculation. and as you say, the small stuff is mainly special forces. some people, including john nogle, have proposed setting up a special advise and assist, you know, soldiers who would be specialists in being advisers to overseas armies. and i think that is what a lot of the army is doing now.h they find it -- bu
if there's a war with china, ir don't see it being a ground war, at least not with us involved. president obama and secretary panetta and the joint chiefs of staff in their strategy reviewne oftt a year ago which is the mot attention to that was the pivote from europe to the pacific, one thing in that review that wasn't so well noted was the idea that it's kind of an end of nation building. he said the army and marines shall not size its forces for large-scale, prolonged stability operations...
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as peter says to champion, sorry, china, do as we say, not as we do. so, what is marvelous about the book to see the world anew. you have seasons is this is about borders and foreign relations, got government expansion, economic development, societal transformation, americans' political development. it's also an important book for political scientist because it's so well-written. there's a donate political science, and peter has weighed in heavily on this debate. i can make an important argument and not put you to sleep. i can make an important argument that people will like to read, and for that this book is a clarion call in a debate about the nature of our discipline, and for that i say, cheers. now, there's puzzle running through the book, almost like two stories in it. i want to tell you about the two different stories running throughout this book and then try to sort out how to make sense of the puzzle. you see, story number one is the story of a nation that winks at rogues. it's a mischievous tolerant nation. there's john hancock. the big signat
as peter says to champion, sorry, china, do as we say, not as we do. so, what is marvelous about the book to see the world anew. you have seasons is this is about borders and foreign relations, got government expansion, economic development, societal transformation, americans' political development. it's also an important book for political scientist because it's so well-written. there's a donate political science, and peter has weighed in heavily on this debate. i can make an important...
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incredibly influential book in 1938 called unprotracted warfare which he wrote sitting in a cave in northern china working so intently that he didn't notice that a fire from a candle was burning a hole in his sock. and what mao emphasized is as he famously said that people are like water, and the army is like fish. he said that it was search to keep -- it was essential to keep the closest possible relations with the people, that a guerrilla force had to be extremely cognizant of winning the support of the public upon whom it was operating. he gave instructions to his soldiers to be courteous and polite to pay for our articles and establish latrines a safe distance from people's houses. now, believe me, this was not something the huns worried about thousands of ideas before. their plan was to kill as many thousands of people in as gruesome a fashion as they possibly could. but mao understood that you had to pay attention to public opinion. and that's something that has been incredibly influential ever since. it's especially been influential, even more so, with terrorist organizations. because terro
incredibly influential book in 1938 called unprotracted warfare which he wrote sitting in a cave in northern china working so intently that he didn't notice that a fire from a candle was burning a hole in his sock. and what mao emphasized is as he famously said that people are like water, and the army is like fish. he said that it was search to keep -- it was essential to keep the closest possible relations with the people, that a guerrilla force had to be extremely cognizant of winning the...
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certainly, they'd been in china, manchuria long before this, but they miscalculated. they thought the japanese were going to attack perhaps in april or may of 1942, not december of 1941. they didn't have the resources there. they did not foresee the disaster at pearl harbor, which would just -- temporarily just annihilate our fleet. there was just lack of insight and planning. and as a result, there wasn't enough -- the -- the troops weren't trained properly. a lot of the reservists, the men, like cassie, arrived in the fall with barely enough time to get acclimated to it. they completely underestimated the japanese offensive there. c-span: how filthy was it? >> guest: well, imagine you're in a -- you're in a jungle that's as thick and as difficult as any in the world. there's no sanitation. there's not enough food. the japanese have control of the air and the sea. they're flying over you at whim. and you have nowhere to go. the bataan peninsula is not that big a place. it's -- it's perhaps 60 miles from tip to the end of it. and i thought of it like a jam jar. and th
certainly, they'd been in china, manchuria long before this, but they miscalculated. they thought the japanese were going to attack perhaps in april or may of 1942, not december of 1941. they didn't have the resources there. they did not foresee the disaster at pearl harbor, which would just -- temporarily just annihilate our fleet. there was just lack of insight and planning. and as a result, there wasn't enough -- the -- the troops weren't trained properly. a lot of the reservists, the men,...
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local consequences of the global cold war, published by stanford university press in 2008, and "the china diary of george h. w. bush" published by princeton university press in 2008. we think in leadership and whole of government national security reform, one of our bush school faculty members, and that was done for the strategic studies institute in 2010. and he wrote "the fall of the berlin wall," published by oxford university press in 2000. obviously, we miss him at the bush school but we know he's doing well at the smu. i would now like to suggest that we're going to have a preproduction to doctor jeff engel coming up on stage, and before he brings his remarks, we are going to see a video. is a pretty significant to you because it's a video in president bush's own words, and it chronicles events followed the invasion of kuwait, and i would like you now to pay attention to this video, and after it's over, we'll have jeff engel, then talk with us. thank you very much. [applause] >> in the early morning hours of august 2, following negotiations and promises by iraq's dictator, saddam hu
local consequences of the global cold war, published by stanford university press in 2008, and "the china diary of george h. w. bush" published by princeton university press in 2008. we think in leadership and whole of government national security reform, one of our bush school faculty members, and that was done for the strategic studies institute in 2010. and he wrote "the fall of the berlin wall," published by oxford university press in 2000. obviously, we miss him at the...
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i called them up and said how would you like to go to china, the national theatre of china? so they have the opportunity to work with the greatest theater company as well as people from other parts of the united states this was the first time african-american performers have performed on the same stage in a play in china. >> host: so you as a historian make history. >> guest: it was historic and then once they did it in china, they said where else? i have gone to the palestinian territories back in the 90s, because the role of nonviolence there and the need to bring nonviolence into this dispute between the israelis and the palestinians, and i thought why not ring it there? again, this was the palestinian national theatre taking on this play. we took it to a different communities, not just jerusalem but in ramallah and pepper on and all these different places. >> host: what were the reactions of these governments? you are again a protester. >> guest: i didn't ask for permission. >> host: did you have to have the? >> guest: not really. we had a little bit of trouble getting i
i called them up and said how would you like to go to china, the national theatre of china? so they have the opportunity to work with the greatest theater company as well as people from other parts of the united states this was the first time african-american performers have performed on the same stage in a play in china. >> host: so you as a historian make history. >> guest: it was historic and then once they did it in china, they said where else? i have gone to the palestinian...
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it's in europe, japan, and it's also in china, and in india. you may have heard of the chinese company called fox con that makes the smart phone and digital devices. they announced over the next three years, they are installing one million robots. now, these young chinese men and women who have migrated in such large numbers from the impoverished rural areas of china from the centers of manufacturing, closer to the export terminals, what are they going to do when they compete with these row -- robots, and the robots get smarter and the algorithms and thinking machines get smarter all the time. moore's law, which everybody knows about, making the computers twice as fast every 18-24 months for the same dollar. you don't have to keep going in that pattern for very long before they get in much smarter than they are now, and they are now beginning to take on tasks that we have always assumed would remain the unique province of our species. we are talking now about economic policies in our country that represent a pattern that really is rooted in the
it's in europe, japan, and it's also in china, and in india. you may have heard of the chinese company called fox con that makes the smart phone and digital devices. they announced over the next three years, they are installing one million robots. now, these young chinese men and women who have migrated in such large numbers from the impoverished rural areas of china from the centers of manufacturing, closer to the export terminals, what are they going to do when they compete with these row --...